One might expect that we are preparing effectively for a pandemic, that we were ready with the ventilators, with the I.C.U.s, with the test kits that we need. The national crisis says, we’re responding, it’s all free, you don’t have to pay for a thing. We just pass a law saying that you do not have to pay for any of this, period.” “That’s not true. As a matter of fact, that’s not true. And in a war, you do whatever is needed to be done to take care of your people.”

Source: New York Times March 23, 2020 09:56 UTC